Senior Software Engineer at iKhokha

Job Description

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s ready to push boundaries, challenge the status quo, and build tech that makes a real impact for small businesses in South Africa.
• If you’re a chance‑taker with a passion for crafting high‑quality solutions in a fast‑moving FinTech environment, you might just be made to make it with us.

So, what will you do? 

• You will be a part of building new technologies, maintaining existing technologies as well as testing various systems within the FinTech space.
• You will also be working in an Agile environment within a collaborative cross-functional Team, reporting into the Software Development Manager.

In addition to the above, you will: 

• Developing crispy new user-facing features that drive our users to take action, using Typescript, React.js, HTML5 and CSS.
• Responsible for the end-to-end development of FinTech systems, including: initial planning, development, writing test cases, creating the deployment pipeline and deploying to our cloud hosting provider.
• Ensuring that code developed is of the highest standards through the adherence to Engineering Principles, Pull Request Standards and Definitions of Done.
• Ensuring that development has sufficient Code coverage through the creation of Unit test.
• Ensuring that code adheres to “Clean as you code standard“.
• Creating, reading, maintaining, interpreting, updating and reviewing documentation.
• Helping other engineers to grow through effective mentorship.
• Ensuring that the team and stakeholders are communicated too effective and efficiently through Pull Requests, Jira Tickets, Slack and Confluence.
• Imparting valuable knowledge to the engineering team at large through knowledge sharing sessions.

Qualifications

The following would be advantageous:

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

Deal Breakers:

Minimum 5+ years’ experience in the following:

• Working within an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methods.
• Version Control experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) with a version control system such as GitHub.
• Development Environments experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Teams (with developers of various levels) within multiple environments for Development, Testing and Production; including Branching Strategies.
• Experience with Technical Leadership whereby you have led a Software Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) and been involved in Technical Leadership, Code Quality, Code Standards, Code Security, System and Code Performance. This includes leading and participating in Code Reviews for your own team as well as those in other teams.
• Experience with creating, maintaining and reviewing documentation.
• Experience with designing and implementing various architectural layers: for example Presentation, Application, Service, Integration and Database layers.